The Many Lies of "Trickle Down"
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/the-rebublican-lie/
It's not just about taxes (though they are an important part), but wages and benefits. As corporations and wealthy business owners (large and small) sock it away, they're doing it by squeezing the dreams , and the life out of the working poor. Few greater examples exist in America today than in the food service industry. Federal sub-minimum tipped wages were pinned to half of minimum wage until "Nine, nine, nine!" Herman Caine took over the NRA. No, not the gun nuts. The other NRA, the one that does more damage to more lives in this country. The National Restaurant Association. Look it up. The NRA went along with a federal minimum wage increase only if they could freeze the sub-minimum tipped wages at $2.13/hour. How much better did your profit margin suddenly become? And why do you think you've suddenly seen this boom in restaurants all over the place? And why do you think you've suddenly seen this boom in food service employees needing government assistance? The NRA created millions of new jobs, and thousands of more rich people, and millions of more WORKING poor.
Only in America can the loudest voices decrying a "welfare state" be the ones most directly, and cravenly, at fault for it.
It's not just about taxes (though they are an important part), but wages and benefits. As corporations and wealthy business owners (large and small) sock it away, they're doing it by squeezing the dreams , and the life out of the working poor. Few greater examples exist in America today than in the food service industry. Federal sub-minimum tipped wages were pinned to half of minimum wage until "Nine, nine, nine!" Herman Caine took over the NRA. No, not the gun nuts. The other NRA, the one that does more damage to more lives in this country. The National Restaurant Association. Look it up. The NRA went along with a federal minimum wage increase only if they could freeze the sub-minimum tipped wages at $2.13/hour. How much better did your profit margin suddenly become? And why do you think you've suddenly seen this boom in restaurants all over the place? And why do you think you've suddenly seen this boom in food service employees needing government assistance? The NRA created millions of new jobs, and thousands of more rich people, and millions of more WORKING poor.
Only in America can the loudest voices decrying a "welfare state" be the ones most directly, and cravenly, at fault for it.
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